A typology of household-level adaptation to coastal flooding and its spatio-temporal patterns

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Table 1 Demographic and housing variables

Variable	Values		Percentage
Age	< 20 years		0.9
	21 – 30 years		5.8
	31 – 40 years		9.3
	41 – 50 years		16.2
	51 – 60 years		23.2
	61 – 70 years		29
	> 71 years		15.7
Gender	Female		42.6
Gender	Male		57.4
Children (up to 18 years) in same house/flat	Yes		26.7
Children (up to 18 years) in same house/flat	No		73.3
Ownership	Tenant		17.2
Ownership	Owner		82.8
Flooding damage(of house/flat/lot) in the past	Yes		30.7
Flooding damage(of house/flat/lot) in the past	No		59.6
	Do not know		9.7
Knowledge about height above sea-level*	Yes		50.3
Knowledge about height above sea-level*	No		49.7
Knowledge about distance to coastline*	Yes		86.3
Knowledge about distance to coastline*	No		13.7
Existence of public safety measures	Yes		68
Existence of public safety measures	No		28.8
	Do not know		3.2
Knowledge of height of public safety measure*	Yes		55.5
	No		44.5
Demographic and housing	M	SD	min – max
Occupancy house/flat in years	18.2	15.5	0.5 - 86.0
Occupancy coast in years	34.1	20.9	0.5 - 86.0
Height about sea-level in m**	3.9	2.9	-3 - 10
Distance to coast in m***	556	1173	3 - 5000

Note: *Self-reported, **Excluding values above 10 m, ***Excluding values above 5000 m.